BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//The Humanities Institute - ECPv6.16.3//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu X-WR-CALDESC:Events for The Humanities Institute REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Los_Angeles BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20110313T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20111106T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20120311T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20121104T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20130310T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20131103T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20140309T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20141102T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20150308T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20151101T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20160313T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20161106T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20170312T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20171105T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20180311T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20181104T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20190310T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20191103T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20200308T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20201101T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20210314T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20211107T090000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200305T173000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200305T173000 DTSTAMP:20260618T222802 CREATED:20200129T193047Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200304T000303Z UID:10006834-1583429400-1583429400@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:CANCELLED - Living Writers: Konrad Steiner DESCRIPTION:Please note that this Thursday’s Living Writers reader\, Konrad Steiner\, wanted to respect the graduate student strike and not cross the picket lines. His reading/performance will be rescheduled for next year.  \nKonrad Steiner is a San Francisco based experimental filmmaker. He has been making 16mm films since 1981\, and since 2004 has been working with musicians and poets on live cinema. From 2004-2006 he was a curator at SF Cinematheque and from 2007-2009 co-produced the Kino21 film series which specialized in documentary and performative cinema. From 1999 to 2012 he made a collaborative film with Leslie Scalapino\, creating a feature length film cycle from her reading her book-length poem\, “way\,” which was the soundtrack. Between 2003 thru 2017 he worked with writers to produce a series of events in SF\, Oakland\, Santa Cruz\, LA\, NY\, Chicago\, Detroit\, Seattle\, and Providence RI around the practice of live film narration\, or “neobenshi” or “the new talkies” or “cinema cabaret.” This is a practice exemplified by the Japanese tradition of the benshi\, or live-narrator to silent films. He will discuss the many braids of this tradition moving off in different forms\, and demonstrate a live method of taking over modern films with the sound turned off using only language. \nMore information about Konrad Steiner is available here URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/living-writers-konrad-steiner/ LOCATION:Humanities Lecture Hall\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200227T173000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200227T173000 DTSTAMP:20260618T222802 CREATED:20200129T192800Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200129T192800Z UID:10006833-1582824600-1582824600@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Living Writers: Gretchen Primack DESCRIPTION:Gretchen Primack is a poet and educator living in New York’s Hudson Valley. She has taught and/or administrated with prison education programs (mostly college) since 2005. She’s the author of three poetry collections: Visiting Days (Willow Books)\, Kind (Post Traumatic Press)\, and Doris’ Red Spaces (Mayapple Press)\, and a chapbook\, The Slow Creaking of Planets (Finishing Line 2007). She co-wrote The Lucky Ones: My Passionate Fight for Farm Animals with Woodstock Farm Animal Sanctuary co-founder Jenny Brown (Penguin Avery 2012). Her poetry publication credits include The Paris Review\, Prairie Schooner\, Ploughshares\, FIELD\, Poet Lore\, The Massachusetts Review\, The Antioch Review\, New Orleans Review\, Rhino\, Tampa Review\, and many others journals and anthologies. \nMore information about Gretchen Primack is available here URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/living-writers-gretchen-primack/ LOCATION:Humanities Lecture Hall\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200220T173000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200220T173000 DTSTAMP:20260618T222802 CREATED:20200129T192518Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200129T192518Z UID:10006832-1582219800-1582219800@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Living Writers: Jennifer Tseng DESCRIPTION:Poet and fiction writer Jennifer Tseng was born in Indiana and raised in California by a first generation Chinese engineer and a third generation German American microbiologist. Her flash fiction collection\, The Passion of Woo & Isolde (Rose Metal Press 2017)\, was a Firecracker Award finalist and winner of an Eric Hoffer Book Award; and her novel\, Mayumi and the Sea of Happiness (Europa Editions 2015)\, was shortlisted for the PEN American Center’s Robert W. Bingham Prize for Debut Fiction and the New England Book Award; it’s available in English\, Italian\, and Danish. She’s also the author of three award-winning books of poetry\, The Man With My Face (AAWW 2005); the bilingual Red Flower\, White Flower (Marick Press 2013) featuring Chinese translations by Mengying Han and Aaron Crippen; and Not so dear Jenny (Bateau Press 2017)\, poems made with her Chinese father’s English letters. \nMore information about Jennifer Tseng is available here URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/living-writers-jennifer-tseng/ LOCATION:Humanities Lecture Hall\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200213T173000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200213T173000 DTSTAMP:20260618T222802 CREATED:20200129T191851Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200204T200600Z UID:10006830-1581615000-1581615000@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Living Writers: Juan Martinez DESCRIPTION: URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/living-writers-juan-martinez/ LOCATION:Humanities Lecture Hall\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200206T173000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200206T190000 DTSTAMP:20260618T222802 CREATED:20200129T192231Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200204T200633Z UID:10006831-1581010200-1581015600@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Living Writers: Thirii Myo Kyaw Myint DESCRIPTION:Thirii Myo Kyaw Myint was born in Yangon\, Myanmar and grew up in Bangkok\, Thailand and San José\, California. She is the author of the lyric novel The End of Peril\, the End of Enmity\, the End of Strife\, a Haven (Noemi Press\, 2018) and the family history project Zat Lun\, which won the 2018 Graywolf Press Nonfiction Prize and is forthcoming in early 2021. Her work has appeared in Black Warrior Review\, TriQuarterly\, and Kenyon Review Online\, among others\, and has been translated into Burmese and Lithuanian. She is the recipient of a Fulbright grant to Spain\, residencies at Hedgebrook and Millay Colony\, and fellowships from Tin House and Summer Literary Seminars. She holds a B.A. in literary arts from Brown University and an M.F.A. in prose from the University of Notre Dame. She is currently a Ph.D. candidate in creative writing at the University of Denver\, the associate editor of the Denver Quarterly\, and an instructor at Lighthouse Writer’s Workshop. \nMore information about Thirii Myo Kyaw Myint is available here URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/living-writers-thirii-myo-kyaw-myint/ LOCATION:Humanities Lecture Hall\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200130T173000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200130T173000 DTSTAMP:20260618T222802 CREATED:20200129T191312Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200129T191312Z UID:10006829-1580405400-1580405400@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Living Writers: Jess Arndt DESCRIPTION:Jess Arndt received her MFA at Bard and was a 2013 Graywolf SLS Fellow and 2010 Fiction Fellow at the New York Foundation of the Arts. She has written for Fence\, BOMB\, Aufgabe\, and the art journal Parkett\, among others. She is a co-founder of New Herring Press\, and lives in Los Angeles. \nMore information about Jess Arndt is available here URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/living-writers-jess-arndt/ LOCATION:Humanities Lecture Hall\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191204T191000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191204T203000 DTSTAMP:20260618T222802 CREATED:20190912T200018Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190913T175514Z UID:10006776-1575486600-1575491400@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Living Writers: Student Readings DESCRIPTION:Students will be reading from their own work. \n  URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/living-writers-student-readings-2/ LOCATION:Humanities Lecture Hall\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191114T191000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191114T203000 DTSTAMP:20260618T222802 CREATED:20190912T195712Z LAST-MODIFIED:20191112T195144Z UID:10006775-1573758600-1573763400@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Living Writers: "After Ursula" with Karen Joy Fowler\, Molly Gloss\, Nisi Shawl\, and Kim Stanley Robinson DESCRIPTION:After Ursula: Four renowned Sci Fi/Fantasy Writers all mentored by Ursula K Le Guin read from their work. \nMolly Gloss is the author of several novels including The Jump-Off Creek\, The Dazzle of Day\, Wild Life\, The Hearts of Horses and Falling From Horses\, as well as the story collection Unforeseen. She writes both realistic fiction and science fiction\, and her novels have received\, among other honors\, a PEN West Fiction Prize\, an Oregon Book Award\, two Pacific Northwest Booksellers Awards\, the James Tiptree\, Jr. Award\, and a Whiting Writers Award. \nKaren Joy Fowler is the author of six novels\, including Sarah Canary and The Jane Austen Book Club\, and three short story collections\, including What I Didn’t See. Her most recent novel We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves\, was published by Putnam in May 2013 and won the Pen Faulkner award that year. She currently lives in Santa Cruz. \nNisi Shawl wrote the 2016 Nebula finalist Everfair and the 2008 Tiptree Award-winning collection Filter House. In 2005 she co-wrote Writing the Other: A Practical Approach\, a standard text on inclusive representation in the imaginative genres. Her stories have appeared in Strange Horizons\, Asimov’s SF Magazine\, and many other publications. She edited the anthology New Suns: Original Speculative Fiction by People of Color; and co-edited Stories for Chip: A Tribute to Samuel R. Delany; Strange Matings: Science Fiction\, Feminism\, African American Voices\, and Octavia E. Butler. Shawl is a Carl Brandon Society founder and a Clarion West board member. She lives in Seattle near an enticingly large lake. \nKim Stanley Robinson is an American science fiction writer. He is the author of more than twenty books\, including the international bestselling Mars trilogy\, and more recently Red Moon\, New York 2140\, Aurora\, Shaman\, Green Earth\, and 2312. He was sent to the Antarctic by the U.S. National Science Foundation’s Antarctic Artists and Writers’ Program in 1995\, and returned in their Antarctic media program in 2016. In 2008 he was named a “Hero of the Environment” by Time magazine. He works with the Sierra Nevada Research Institute\, the Clarion Writers’ Workshop\, and UC San Diego’s Arthur C. Clarke Center for Human Imagination. His work has been translated into 25 languages\, and won a dozen awards in five countries\, including the Hugo\, Nebula\, Locus\, and World Fantasy awards. In 2016 asteroid 72432 was named “Kimrobinson.” \n  \n\n  \nThis Living Writers event is co-sponsored by The Humanities Institute. \nPlease join us as we kick off the 20th anniversary of The Humanities Institute at our Open House Celebration on November 14th from 4-6pm. Raise a glass\, meet our fellows\, and connect with your community. In many ways\, The Humanities Institute is a demonstration of where the Humanities is headed and we are stronger when we do this work together. \n  URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/living-writers-after-ursula-karen-joy-fowler-molly-gloss-nisi-shawl-and-kim-stanley-robinson/ LOCATION:Humanities Lecture Hall\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191015T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191015T180000 DTSTAMP:20260618T222802 CREATED:20190909T181823Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190926T222755Z UID:10006768-1571155200-1571162400@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:David Eng: Racial Melancholia\, Racial Dissociation - On the Social and Psychic Lives of Asian Americans DESCRIPTION:Please join David L. Eng for a discussion of his new book\, Racial Melancholia\, Racial Dissociation: On the Social and Psychic Lives of Asian Americans (Duke University Press\, 2019)\, co-authored with Shinhee Han. The book draws on case histories from the mid-1990s to the present to explore the social and psychic predicaments of Asian American young adults from Generation X to Generation Y. Combining critical race theory with several strands of psychoanalytic thought and clinical practice\, Eng and Han develop the concepts of racial melancholia and racial dissociation to investigate changing processes of loss associated with immigration\, displacement\, diaspora\, and assimilation. These case studies of first- and second-generation Asian Americans deal with a range of difficulties\, from depression\, suicide\, and the politics of coming out to broader issues of the model minority stereotype\, transnational adoption\, parachute children\, colorblind discourses in the United States\, and the rise of Asia under globalization. Throughout\, Eng and Han link psychoanalysis to larger structural and historical phenomena\, illuminating how the study of psychic processes of individuals can inform investigations of race\, sexuality\, and immigration while creating a more sustained conversation about the social lives of Asian Americans and Asians in the diaspora. \nDavid L. Eng is Richard L. Fisher Professor of English at the University of Pennsylvania. He is also Professor in the Program in Asian American Studies\, the Program in Comparative Literature & Literary Theory\, and the Program in Gender\, Sexuality & Women’s Studies. After receiving his B.A. in English from Columbia University and his Ph.D. in comparative literature from the University of California at Berkeley\, he taught at Columbia and Rutgers before joining Penn in 2007. Eng has held visiting professorships at the University of Bergen (Norway)\, King’s College London\, Harvard University\, and the University of Hong Kong. He is the recipient of research fellowships from the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton\, the Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies\, and the Mellon Foundation\, among others. In 2016\, Eng was elected an honorary member of the Institute for Psychoanalytic Training and Research (IPTAR) in New York City. His areas of specialization include American literature\, Asian American studies\, Asian diaspora\, critical race theory\, psychoanalysis\, queer studies\, gender studies\, and visual culture. \nEng is author with Shinhee Han of Racial Melancholia\, Racial Dissociation: On the Social and Psychic Lives of Asian Americans (Duke\, 2019)\, The Feeling of Kinship: Queer Liberalism and the Racialization of Intimacy (Duke\, 2010)\, and Racial Castration: Managing Masculinity in Asian America (Duke\, 2001). He is co-editor with David Kazanjian of Loss: The Politics of Mourning (California\, 2003) and with Alice Y. Hom of Q & A: Queer in Asian America (Temple\, 1998\, winner of a Lambda Literary Award and Association of Asian American Studies Book Award). In addition\, he is co-editor of two special issues of the journal Social Text: with Teemu Ruskola and Shuang Shen\, “China and the Human”  (2011/2012)\, and with Jack Halberstam and José Esteban Muñoz\, “What’s Queer about Queer Studies Now?” (2005). \nCurrently\, he is co-editing with Jasbir Puar a third special issue of Social Text\, “Left of Queer” as well as completing a monograph\, “Reparations and the Human\,” which investigates the relationship between political and psychic genealogies of reparation in Cold War Asia. \nCo-sponsored by the Center for Cultural Studies\, Literature\, Critical Race and Ethnic Studies\, History of Consciousness\, and Feminist Studies departments. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/david-eng-racial-melancholia-racial-dissociation-on-the-social-and-psychic-lives-of-asian-americans/ LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 202 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191010T191000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191010T203000 DTSTAMP:20260618T222802 CREATED:20190912T195151Z LAST-MODIFIED:20191010T172824Z UID:10006774-1570734600-1570739400@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:CANCELLED Living Writers: Marcelo Hernandez Castillo DESCRIPTION:Marcelo Hernandez Castillo is a poet\, essayist\, translator\, and immigration advocate. He is the author of Cenzontle (BOA editions\, 2018)\, chosen by Brenda Shaughnessy as the winner of the 2017 A. Poulin Jr. prize and winner of the 2018 Northern California Book Award. Cenzontle maps a parallel between the landscape of the border and the landscape of sexuality through surreal and deeply imagistic poems. Castillo’s first chapbook\, Dulce (Northwestern University Press\, 2018)\, was chosen by Chris Abani\, Ed Roberson\, and Matthew Shenoda as the winner of the Drinking Gourd Poetry Prize. His memoir\, Children of the Land is forthcoming from Harper Collins in 2020 and explores the ideas of separation from deportation\, trauma\, and mobility between borders. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/living-writers-marcelo-hernandez-castillo/ LOCATION:Humanities Lecture Hall\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191003T191000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191003T203000 DTSTAMP:20260618T222802 CREATED:20190912T194956Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190912T194956Z UID:10006773-1570129800-1570134600@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Living Writers: R. Zamora Linmark DESCRIPTION:R. Zamora Linmark is the author of The Importance of Being Wilde at Heart\, his first novel for young adults from Delacorte/Random House. He has also published two novels\, Rolling the R’s (Kaya Press) which he’d adapted for the stage\, and Leche (Coffee House Press)\, as well as four poetry collections\, most recently\, Pop Vérité\, all from Hanging Loose Press. He divides his time between Honolulu\, Hawaii\, and Baguio\, Philippines. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/living-writers-r-zamora-linmark/ LOCATION:Humanities Lecture Hall\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190606T173000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190606T173000 DTSTAMP:20260618T222802 CREATED:20190403T220715Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190403T220715Z UID:10006733-1559842200-1559842200@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Living Writers: Diana Khoi Nguyen DESCRIPTION:Born and raised in Los Angeles\, Diana Khoi Nguyen is a multimedia artist and award-winning poet whose work has appeared widely in literary journals such as Poetry\, American Poetry Review\, Boston Review\, PEN America\, and The Iowa Review\, among others. She recently won the 92Y’s Discovery / Boston Review2017 Poetry Contest and the Omnidawn Open Book Contest. She has also received awards\, scholarships\, and fellowships from the Academy of American Poets\, Key West Literary Seminars\, Bread Loaf Writers Conference\, Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center\, Community of Writers at Squaw Valley\, and Bucknell University. Currently\, she lives in Denver where she is a doctoral candidate in Creative Writing at the University of Denver. She teaches at the Lighthouse Writers Workshop and in the Daniels College of Business at the University of Denver. \nCo-sponsors: The Porter Hitchcock Poetry Fund\, The Morton Marcus Memorial Poetry Reading\, The Laurie Sain Creative Writing Endowment\, Siegfried B. and Elizabeth Mignon Puknat Literary Studies Endowment\, The Bay Tree Bookstore\, The Humanities Institute\, The American Indian Resource Center\, The Asian American/Pacific Islander Resource Center\, and the African American Resource and Cultural Center. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/living-writers-diana-khoi-nguyen/ LOCATION:Humanities Lecture Hall\, Room 206\, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall\, 1156 High Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/Screen-Shot-2019-04-03-at-2.45.15-PM.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190523T173000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190523T173000 DTSTAMP:20260618T222802 CREATED:20190403T221454Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190403T221454Z UID:10006734-1558632600-1558632600@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Living Writers: Student Readings DESCRIPTION:Students will be reading from their own work. \nPlease stay tuned for more information. \nCo-sponsors: The Porter Hitchcock Poetry Fund\, The Morton Marcus Memorial Poetry Reading\, The Laurie Sain Creative Writing Endowment\, Siegfried B. and Elizabeth Mignon Puknat Literary Studies Endowment\, The Bay Tree Bookstore\, The Humanities Institute\, The American Indian Resource Center\, The Asian American/Pacific Islander Resource Center\, and the African American Resource and Cultural Center. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/living-writers-student-readings/ LOCATION:Humanities Lecture Hall\, Room 206\, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall\, 1156 High Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/Screen-Shot-2019-04-03-at-2.45.15-PM.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190523T093000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190523T160000 DTSTAMP:20260618T222802 CREATED:20190522T205416Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190522T205416Z UID:10006744-1558603800-1558627200@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:The Twentieth Annual Literature Undergraduate Colloquium DESCRIPTION:THE TWENTIETH ANNUAL LITERATURE UNDERGRADUATE COLLOQUIUM \nFriends and family are welcome. Come for any part or all of the day. \nOpening Remarks 9:30 a.m. \nProfessor Sean Keilen Director\, Literature Undergraduate Program \nPanel One: Creative Writing \n9:45 – 10:45 a.m.\nModerator: Professor Micah Perks \nMary Miki Arlen\, La chanson de Lancelot (et Roland) \nRosa Scupine\, How should I remember my grandfather? \nTomas Tedsesco\, You ask\, “who lives in you?” \nAmanda Vong\, Body of Water \nHolly Voorsanger\, Speculative Memoir: Love or Drug? \nPanel Two: Literature and Empire \n11:00 a.m. – 12:00 noon \nModerator: Professor Martin Devecka \nAspen Adams\, Inescapable Pasts: Screen Memories and Sublimation in the Nuclear Age \nRyan McElroy\, Nuclear Savage’s Questionable Heart: Replicated Genocidal Imagery in a White Savior Narrative \nJessica Parra Moya\, Reclamando y Desmantelando La Figura De La Malinche Con Las Herramientas Del Patrón \nLITERATURE UNDERGRADUATE PRIZES-12:00 – 12:45 p.m. \nProfessor Carla Freccero Chair\, Literature Department \n* FREE * LUNCH BUFFET \nPanel Three: Literature and Other Arts \n12:45 – 1:45 p.m. \nModerator: Professor H. Marshall Leicester\, Jr. \nEmily Caballero\, Kyle Baker’s Nat Turner: Guttered White Violence in the Shadows of Death \nZoe Hildebrand\, Theory of The Influencer \nDaniel Sachs\, Rules of the Boys’ Club: Postmodern Horror Films and the Allegory of the Female Director \nPanel Four: Encounters with the Novel \n2:00 – 3:00 p.m. \nModerator: Professor Chris Connery \nLuan Gondim de Alencastro\, Complacency in the Absurd: A Study of Metatextuality in As Memorias Postumas de Bras Cubas \nMaxwell Shukuya\, Emptiness and the Contemporary Novel Under Neoliberalism \nEmanuel Trujillo\, Finding Adan \nPanel Five: Shakespeare’s Late Plays \n3:15 – 4:00 p.m. \nModerator: Professor Sean Keilen \nStephanie Bolduc\, Forgiveness and Control in The Winter’s Tale and The Tempest \nCynthia Gonzalez\, Anger and Forgiveness in The Tempest and Cymbeline \nConcluding Remarks 4:00 p.m. \n  \nFREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC. ALL ARE INVITED! \nFor more information: literature.ucsc.edu | (831) 459-4778 | litdept@ucsc.edu URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/twentieth-annual-literature-undergraduate-colloquium/ LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190516T173000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190516T173000 DTSTAMP:20260618T222802 CREATED:20190403T220342Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190403T220923Z UID:10006732-1558027800-1558027800@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Living Writers: Daniel Borzutzky DESCRIPTION:Daniel Borzutzky’s latest poetry collection is Lake Michigan (Pitt Poetry Series\, 2018). He is the author of The Performance of Becoming Human (Brooklyn Arts Press)\, recipient of the 2016 National Book Award for Poetry. His other books include Memories of my Overdevelopment (Kenning Editions\, 2015); In the Murmurs of the Rotten Carcass Economy (Nightboat\, 2015)\, and The Book of Interfering Bodies (Nightboat\, 2011). His translation of Galo Ghigliotto’s Valdivia (Co-im-press) won the American Literary Translator’s Association 2017 National Translation Award. He has translated poetry collections by Chilean poets Raúl Zurita and Jaime Luis Huenún. He teaches in the English Department and Latin American and Latino Studies Program at the University of Illinois at Chicago. \nCo-sponsors: The Porter Hitchcock Poetry Fund\, The Morton Marcus Memorial Poetry Reading\, The Laurie Sain Creative Writing Endowment\, Siegfried B. and Elizabeth Mignon Puknat Literary Studies Endowment\, The Bay Tree Bookstore\, The Humanities Institute\, The American Indian Resource Center\, The Asian American/Pacific Islander Resource Center\, and the African American Resource and Cultural Center. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/living-writers-daniel-borzutzky/ LOCATION:Humanities Lecture Hall\, Room 206\, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall\, 1156 High Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/Screen-Shot-2019-04-03-at-2.45.15-PM.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190509T173000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190509T173000 DTSTAMP:20260618T222802 CREATED:20190403T215839Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190403T220757Z UID:10006731-1557423000-1557423000@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Living Writers: Brenda Shaughnessy with Ellen Bass DESCRIPTION:Brenda Shaughnessy earned a BA from the University of California\, Santa Cruz\, and an MFA from Columbia University. She is the author of Interior with Sudden Joy (1999)\, Human Dark with Sugar (2008)\, winner of the James Laughlin Award from the Academy of American Poets\, Our Andromeda(2012)\, So Much Synth (2016)\, and The Octopus Museum (2019). Her work has appeared in the Yale Review\, the Boston Review\, McSweeney’s\, and Best American Poetry\, among other places. Shaughnessy’s work is known for its ability to twin opposites: her poems are both playful and erotic\, lyrical and funny\, formal and strange. Reviewing Human Dark with Sugar\, poet Cate Peebles noted that “Shaughnessy draws attention to the contradiction of being made up of so many parts while appearing to be one single body.” In the New Yorker\, Hilton Als said of her book\, Our Andromeda: “it further establishes Shaughnessy’s particular genius\, which is utterly poetic\, but essayistic in scope\, encompassing ideas about astronomy\, illness\, bodies\, the family\, ‘normalcy\,’ home.” Shaughnessy has received numerous honors and awards for her work\, including fellowships from the Radcliffe Institute\, where she was a Bunting Fellow\, the Japan/U.S. Friendship Commission\, and the Howard Foundation of Brown University. She has taught at universities including Columbia\, the New School\, Princeton\, and New York University. Shaughnessy is currently an associate professor of English at Rutgers University-Newark. \nPoet and teacher Ellen Bass grew up in New Jersey. She earned an MA in creative writing from Boston University\, where she studied with Anne Sexton. Bass’s style is direct; she has noted\, “I work to speak in a voice that is meaningful communication. Poetry is the most intimate of all writing. I want to speak from me to myself and then from me to you.” Bass’s collections of poetry include Mules of Love (2002)\, which won the Lambda Literary Award; The Human Line (2007)\, named a Notable Book by the San Francisco Chronicle; and Like a Beggar (2014). She helped edit the feminist poetry anthology No More Masks! An Anthology of Poems by Women (1973). \nBass has also written works of nonfiction\, including\, with Laura Davis\, The Courage to Heal: A Guide for Women Survivors of Child Sexual Abuse (1988) and Beginning to Heal: A First Book for Men and Women Who Were Sexually Abused as Children (2003\, revised edition 2008). With Kate Kaufman\, she wrote Free Your Mind: The Book for Gay\, Lesbian\, and Bisexual Youth—and Their Allies (1996). Bass’s honors and awards include a Pushcart Prize\, a Pablo Neruda Prize\, a Larry Levis Reading Prize\, and a New Letters Literary Prize. She is a chancellor of the Academy of American Poets\, and she teaches in the MFA program at Pacific University. Bass lives in Santa Cruz\, California. \nCo-sponsors: The Porter Hitchcock Poetry Fund\, The Morton Marcus Memorial Poetry Reading\, The Laurie Sain Creative Writing Endowment\, Siegfried B. and Elizabeth Mignon Puknat Literary Studies Endowment\, The Bay Tree Bookstore\, The Humanities Institute\, The American Indian Resource Center\, The Asian American/Pacific Islander Resource Center\, and the African American Resource and Cultural Center. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/living-writers-brenda-shaughnessy-ellen-bass/ LOCATION:Peace United Church\, 900 High Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/Screen-Shot-2019-04-03-at-2.45.15-PM.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190425T173000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190425T173000 DTSTAMP:20260618T222802 CREATED:20190403T215206Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190403T221008Z UID:10006730-1556213400-1556213400@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Living Writers: Wendy Trevino and Tatiana Luboviski-Acosta DESCRIPTION:Wendy Trevino is the author of Cruel Fiction (Commune Editions\, 2018). She hails from the Rio Grande Valley and works as a grant writer in San Francisco\, California\, where she lives.Wendy Trevino was born and raised in the Rio Grande Valley of South Texas. She lives & works as a grant writer in San Francisco. Her poems have appeared in various print and online journals\, including Abraham Lincoln\, Armed Cell\, the Capilano Review\, The American Reader\, LIES\, Macaroni Necklace\, Mondo Bummer\, ELDERLY\, and Open House. She has published chapbooks with Perfect Lovers Press\, Commune Editions and Krupskaya Books. Her chapbook Brazilian Is Not a Race was among the Poetry Foundation’s 2016 “Staff Picks\,” and a bilingual edition of the chapbook – Brazilian no es una raza – was published by the feminist Mexican press Enjambre Literario in July 2018. In September 2018\, her first book-length collection of poems Cruel Fiction was published by Commune Editions. In addition\, Cruel Fiction was chosen by Momtaza Mehri for Artforum International’s “Best of 2018.” \nTatiana Luboviski-Acosta is an artist and doula living in California. They work sometimes with the visual\, sometimes with movement\, sometimes with language\, sometimes all three at once. Along with Elana Chavez\, they’re a founding curator of The Cantíl Reading Series\, and with Chavez and Angel Dominguez\, a member of La Vidx Locx\, a collective of queer Latinx poets. They’ve taught movement and filmmaking to children and adults alike. Work has been exhibited and performed in Los Angeles and the Bay Area: writing has been published in a chapbook\, PDF\, by Solar Luxuriance; appeared in Esferas; and featured on the SBSM album JOY/RAGE. A split poetry cassette with Elaine Kahn is due out from Practical Records in 2017. The Easy Body is their first book. \nCo-sponsors: The Porter Hitchcock Poetry Fund\, The Morton Marcus Memorial Poetry Reading\, The Laurie Sain Creative Writing Endowment\, Siegfried B. and Elizabeth Mignon Puknat Literary Studies Endowment\, The Bay Tree Bookstore\, The Humanities Institute\, The American Indian Resource Center\, The Asian American/Pacific Islander Resource Center\, and the African American Resource and Cultural Center. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/living-writers-wendy-trevino-tatiana-luboviski-acosta/ LOCATION:Humanities Lecture Hall\, Room 206\, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall\, 1156 High Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/Screen-Shot-2019-04-03-at-2.45.15-PM.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190411T173000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190411T173000 DTSTAMP:20260618T222802 CREATED:20190403T214707Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190403T221040Z UID:10006729-1555003800-1555003800@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Living Writers: Roger Reeves  DESCRIPTION:Roger Reeves received an M.F.A. in creative writing and a Ph.D. in English from the University of Texas\, Austin.Roger Reeves’s poems have appeared in journals such as Poetry\, Ploughshares\, American Poetry Review\, Boston Review\, and Tin House\, among others. Kim Addonizio selected “Kletic of Walt Whitman” for the Best New Poets 2009 anthology. He was awarded a 2013 NEA Fellowship\, Ruth Lilly Fellowship by the Poetry Foundation in 2008\, two Bread Loaf Scholarships\, an Alberta H. Walker Scholarship from the Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center\, and two Cave Canem Fellowships. In 2012\, Reeves received a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship and a Pushcart Prize for his poem “The Field Museum.” He is an Assistant Professor of Poetry at the University of Illinois\, Chicago\, and a 2014–2015 Hodder Fellow at the Lewis Center for the Arts\, Princeton University. King Me (Copper Canyon Press\, 2013) is Reeves’s first book. \nCo-sponsors: The Porter Hitchcock Poetry Fund\, The Morton Marcus Memorial Poetry Reading\, The Laurie Sain Creative Writing Endowment\, Siegfried B. and Elizabeth Mignon Puknat Literary Studies Endowment\, The Bay Tree Bookstore\, The Humanities Institute\, The American Indian Resource Center\, The Asian American/Pacific Islander Resource Center\, and the African American Resource and Cultural Center. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/living-writers-roger-reeves/ LOCATION:Humanities Lecture Hall\, Room 206\, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall\, 1156 High Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/Screen-Shot-2019-04-03-at-2.45.15-PM.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190307T172000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190307T190000 DTSTAMP:20260618T222802 CREATED:20190111T195617Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190111T195617Z UID:10006694-1551979200-1551985200@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Living Writers: Juan Felipe Herrera DESCRIPTION:Born on the migrant roads of Central California\, Juan Felipe grew up in the literary centers of the new Latinx Civil Rights Movement – San Diego\, Los Angeles and San Francisco. There he was inspired by bilingual and Aztec\, Mayan cultural roots\, as well as urban\, and multi-cultural and spoken word\, jazz styles on community performance stages. Also\, he has been a founder of various poetry\, jazz and afro-cuban percussion fusion ensembles\, and street theatre groups. Schools\, from UCLA\, Stanford to Iowa have been key to his thoughts on culture\, power and word. He delights in as many poetic traditions and experimental approaches as possible — children’s books\, experimental art-word fusions\, YA novels\, and performance —with the instant society in mind\, the audience-community. Awards have been many — NEA and Guggenheim Fellowships\, California Arts Council grants\, the LA Times Robert Kirsch Award\, the UCAL Chancellor;s Medal\, the National Book Critic Circle Award\, The Autry Spirit Award\, the Latino International Award and the Pura Belpré Honor Award\, among others. His most recent book\, Imagine\, a children’s book. “Every word is made of kindness\,” he says. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/living-writers-juan-felipe-herrera-2/ LOCATION:Humanities Lecture Hall\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/living-writers-banner.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190207T172000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190207T190000 DTSTAMP:20260618T222802 CREATED:20190111T194612Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190111T194612Z UID:10006692-1549560000-1549566000@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Living Writers: Steven Church DESCRIPTION:Steven Church is the author of six books of nonfiction\, most recently I’m Just Getting to the Disturbing Part: On Work\, Fear\, and Fatherhood\, and he edited the essay anthology\, The Spirit of Disruption: Selections from The Normal School. He’s a Founding Editor and the Nonfiction Editor for The Normal School: a Literary Magazine as well as the Series Editor for The Normal School Nonfiction Series from Outpost19. He’s the Coordinator of the MFA Program in Creative Writing. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/living-writers-steven-church/ LOCATION:Humanities Lecture Hall\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/living-writers-banner.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190131T172000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190131T190000 DTSTAMP:20260618T222802 CREATED:20190111T194137Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190111T194137Z UID:10006691-1548955200-1548961200@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Living Writers: Ronaldo V. Wilson DESCRIPTION:UCSC Professor Ronaldo V. Wilson is an award-winning writer\, artist and performer and co-founder of the critically lauded performance group Black Took Collective. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/living-writers-ronaldo-v-wilson/ LOCATION:Humanities Lecture Hall\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/living-writers-banner.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190125T144000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190125T154500 DTSTAMP:20260618T222802 CREATED:20190111T193917Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190124T005039Z UID:10006690-1548427200-1548431100@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Living Writers: Myriam Gurba DESCRIPTION:Myriam Gurba is a native Californian. She attended U.C. Berkeley thanks to affirmative action. She is the author of the 2017 memoir Mean\, and two short story collections\, Dahlia Season and Painting Their Portraits in Winter. Dahlia Season won the Edmund White Award\, which is given to queer writers for outstanding debut fiction. The book was also shortlisted for a Lambda Literary Award. Gurba is also the author of two poetry collections\, Wish You Were Me and Sweatsuits of the Damned. She has toured North America twice with avant-garde literary and performance troupe Sister Spit. Gurba’s other writing can be found in places such as Entropy.com\, TIME.com\, and Lesfigues.com. She creates digital and photographic art that has been exhibited at galleries and museums. She works as a high school teacher. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/living-writers-myriam-gurba/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/living-writers-banner.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181129T172000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181129T185500 DTSTAMP:20260618T222802 CREATED:20181010T184019Z LAST-MODIFIED:20181010T184156Z UID:10006661-1543512000-1543517700@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Living Writers: Duy Doan & Angie Sijun Lou DESCRIPTION:Duy Doan is a Vietnamese American poet and the author of We Play a Game\, winner of the 2017 Yale Series of Younger Poets Prize. His work has appeared in Poetry\, Poetry Northwest\, Slate\, and TriQuarterly. A Kundiman fellow\, he received an MFA in poetry from Boston University\, where he later served as director of the Favorite Poem Project. Doan has taught at Boston University\, Lesley University\, and the Boston Conservatory. He was born in Dallas\, Texas. \n  \nAngie Sijun Lou is from Seattle. Her work has appeared in the American Poetry Review\, Ninth Letter\, Hyphen\, The Margins\, Nat. Brut\, and others. She is the winner of the 2018 Cosmonauts Avenue Fiction Prize and has received fellowships and awards from the Academy of American Poets and Kundiman. She is pursuing a PhD in Literature and Creative Writing at the University of California Santa Cruz. \n  \nLiving Writers Series Fall 2018: “Sentence & Sentience: Forms” \nThis series features seven contemporary poets\, critics\, and artists who each render\, albeit in differing forms and across a diversity of experiences\, the unit of the sentence for powerfully sentient effects. Whether through poetic argument\, the fictive line\, or the scholarly imagination\, each of these authors explore questions of race\, gender\, sexuality\, nature\, and nation in their respective practices and forms. \n*Note: All Readings\, except for the Morton Marcus Reading\, featuring Gary Snyder\, will take place from 5:20-6:55 in the Humanities Lecture Hall on the dates listed below.  The Gary Snyder Morton Marcus Memorial Poetry Reading will be held in the Music Recital Hall on November 15th from 6-8:00 PM. \n  \nAll events are free and open to the public. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/living-writers-duy-doan-angie-sijun-lou/ LOCATION:Humanities Lecture Hall\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/LivingWritersFtSize.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181121T172000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181121T185500 DTSTAMP:20260618T222802 CREATED:20181119T203711Z LAST-MODIFIED:20181119T205032Z UID:10006689-1542820800-1542826500@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Living Writers: Alexandria Marzano Lesnevich DESCRIPTION:Alexandria Marzano-Lesnevich is the author of THE FACT OF A BODY: A Murder and a Memoir\, recipient of the 2018 Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Memoir and the 2018 Chautauqua Prize. Named one of the best books of the year by Entertainment Weekly\, Audible.com\, Bustle\, Book Riot\, The Times of London\, and The Guardian\, it was an Indie Next Pick and a Junior Library Guild selection\, long-listed for the Gordon Burn Prize\, short-listed for the CWA Gold Dagger\, and a finalist for a New England Book Award and a Goodreads Choice Award. It has been published in the US\, the UK\, and the Netherlands; translations are forthcoming in Turkey\, Korea\, Taiwan\, Spain\, Greece\, Brazil\, and France. The recipient of fellowships from The National Endowment for the Arts\, MacDowell\, and Yaddo\, as well as a Rona Jaffe Award\, Marzano-Lesnevich lives in Portland\, Maine and is an Assistant Professor of English at Bowdoin College. \n  \nAll events are free and open to the public. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/living-writers-alex-marzano-lesnevich/ LOCATION:Peace United Church\, 900 High Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/LivingWritersFtSize.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181108T172000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181108T185500 DTSTAMP:20260618T222802 CREATED:20181010T183815Z LAST-MODIFIED:20181010T183815Z UID:10006660-1541697600-1541703300@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Living Writers: Valeria Luiselli DESCRIPTION:Valeria Luiselli\,  Hofstra University\, is a novelist and non-fiction writer. She is the author of Faces in the Crowd\, Sidewalks\, The Story of My Teeth\, and Tell Me How It Ends. Twice nominated for both the Kirkus Prize and the NBCC Award\, she is the two-time winner of an L.A. Times Book Prize\, a recipient of the National Book Foundation “5 under 35” award\, and the Bearing Witness Fellowship from the Art for Justice Fund. Her work has appeared in The New York Times\, Granta\, and McSweeney’s\, among other publications\, and has been translated into more than twenty languages. She lives and teaches in New York City. \n  \nLiving Writers Series Fall 2018: Sentence & Sentience: Forms \nThis series features seven contemporary poets\, critics\, and artists who each render\, albeit in differing forms and across a diversity of experiences\, the unit of the sentence for powerfully sentient effects. Whether through poetic argument\, the fictive line\, or the scholarly imagination\, each of these authors explore questions of race\, gender\, sexuality\, nature\, and nation in their respective practices and forms. \n*Note: All Readings\, except for the Morton Marcus Reading\, featuring Gary Snyder\, will take place from 5:20-6:55 in the Humanities Lecture Hall on the dates listed below.  The Gary Snyder Morton Marcus Memorial Poetry Reading will be held in the Music Recital Hall on November 15th from 6-8:00 PM. \n  \nAll events are free and open to the public. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/living-writers-valeria-luiselli/ LOCATION:Humanities Lecture Hall\, Room 206\, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall\, 1156 High Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/LivingWritersFtSize.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181101T172000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181101T185500 DTSTAMP:20260618T222802 CREATED:20181010T173759Z LAST-MODIFIED:20181010T183426Z UID:10006657-1541092800-1541098500@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Living Writers: Julian Talamantez Brolaski DESCRIPTION:Julian Talamantez Brolaski is the author of Of Mongrelitude (Wave Books\, 2017)\, which was recently shortlisted for a Lambda Literary Award for Transgender Poetry; Advice for Lovers (City Lights 2012); and Gowanus Atropolis (Ugly Duckling Press\, 2011. It is coediter of NO GENDER: Reflections on the Life & Work of Kari Edwards\, as well as lead singer and rhythm guitarist for the Brooklyn-based Juan & the Pines and Oakland-based The Western Skyline. Julian is currently at work on The Apache Pollen Path (forthcoming from University of New Mexico Press) with its grandmother\, Inés Talamantez. \n  \nAbout Living Writers\, Fall 2018: “Sentence & Sentience: Forms” \nThis series features seven contemporary poets\, critics\, and artists who each render\, albeit in differing forms and across a diversity of experiences\, the unit of the sentence for powerfully sentient effects. Whether through poetic argument\, the fictive line\, or the scholarly imagination\, each of these authors explore questions of race\, gender\, sexuality\, nature\, and nation in their respective practices and forms. \n*Note: All Readings\, except for the Morton Marcus Reading\, featuring Gary Snyder\, will take place from 5:20-6:55 in the Humanities Lecture Hall on the dates listed below.  The Gary Snyder Morton Marcus Memorial Poetry Reading will be held in the Music Recital Hall on November 15th from 6-8:00 PM. \nAll events are free and open to the public. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/living-writers-julian-talamantez-brolaski/ LOCATION:Humanities Lecture Hall\, Room 206\, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall\, 1156 High Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/LivingWritersFtSize.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181025T172000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181025T185500 DTSTAMP:20260618T222802 CREATED:20181010T173828Z LAST-MODIFIED:20181022T202524Z UID:10006658-1540488000-1540493700@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:VENUE CHANGE: Living Writers - Khary Polk DESCRIPTION:Khary Polk is an Assistant Professor of Black Studies & Sexuality\, Women’s and Gender Studies at Amherst College. He attended Oberlin College as an undergraduate\, where he majored in English with a concentration in Creative Writing\, and received his Ph.D. in American Studies from New York University. Polk has written for the Studio Museum of Harlem\, The Journal of Negro History\, Women’s Studies Quarterly\, Gawker\, the journal Biography\, and has contributed essays to a number of queer of color anthologies\, including Why Are Faggots So Afraid of Faggots?: Flaming Challenges to Masculinity Objectification\, and the Desire to Conform\, If We Have To Take Tomorrow\, Corpus\, and Think Again. His forthcoming book\, We Don’t Need Another Hero: Race\, Sexuality\, and Black Military Workers Abroad\, will be published by University of North Carolina Press in Fall 2019. \n  \nLiving Writers Series Fall 2018: Sentence & Sentience: Forms \nThis series features seven contemporary poets\, critics\, and artists who each render\, albeit in differing forms and across a diversity of experiences\, the unit of the sentence for powerfully sentient effects. Whether through poetic argument\, the fictive line\, or the scholarly imagination\, each of these authors explore questions of race\, gender\, sexuality\, nature\, and nation in their respective practices and forms. \n*Note: All Readings\, except for the Morton Marcus Reading\, featuring Gary Snyder\, will take place from 5:20-6:55 in the Humanities Lecture Hall on the dates listed below.  The Gary Snyder Morton Marcus Memorial Poetry Reading will be held in the Music Recital Hall on November 15th from 6-8:00 PM. \nAll events are free and open to the public. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/living-writers-khary-polk/ LOCATION:Peace United Church\, 900 High Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/LivingWritersFtSize.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181011T172000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181011T185500 DTSTAMP:20260618T222802 CREATED:20181010T174022Z LAST-MODIFIED:20181010T184435Z UID:10006659-1539278400-1539284100@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Living Writers: Samiya Bashir DESCRIPTION:Samiya Bashir is the author of three books of poetry: Field Theories\, and Gospel\, and Where the Apple Falls. Sometimes she makes poems of dirt. Sometimes zeros and ones. Sometimes variously rendered text. Sometimes light. Her work has been widely published\, performed\, installed\, printed\, screened\, and experienced. Bashir holds a BA from the University of California\, Berkeley\, where she served as Poet Laureate\, and an MFA from the University of Michigan\, where she received two Hopwood Poetry Awards. Bashir lives in Portland\, Oregon where she teaches at Reed College. \n  \nAbout Living Writers\, Fall 2018: “Sentence & Sentience: Forms” \nThis series features seven contemporary poets\, critics\, and artists who each render\, albeit in differing forms and across a diversity of experiences\, the unit of the sentence for powerfully sentient effects. Whether through poetic argument\, the fictive line\, or the scholarly imagination\, each of these authors explore questions of race\, gender\, sexuality\, nature\, and nation in their respective practices and forms. \n*Note: All Readings\, except for the Morton Marcus Reading\, featuring Gary Snyder\, will take place from 5:20-6:55 in the Humanities Lecture Hall on the dates listed below.  The Gary Snyder Morton Marcus Memorial Poetry Reading will be held in the Music Recital Hall on November 15th from 6-8:00 PM. \n  \nAll events are free and open to the public. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/living-writers-samiya-bashir/ LOCATION:Humanities Lecture Hall\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/LivingWritersFtSize.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180412T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180412T120000 DTSTAMP:20260618T222802 CREATED:20180129T185917Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180404T223328Z UID:10005451-1523527200-1523534400@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Christopher Breu: "In Defense of Sex" DESCRIPTION:Christopher Breu: “In Defense of Sex”\nLecture at 10am \nAre sex and gender the same thing? Are trans* and intersex the same thing? Do we even need the category of sex anymore? Is it hopelessly retrograde\, a category that has run its course and has rightly been replaced by the endlessly more flexible category of gender? “In Defense of Sex” will put forward a concept of sex as embodying a different materiality than gender\, one that can form in tension with gendered embodiments and identifications and that asserts its own forms of agency\, resistance\, and refusal. It will do so by drawing on intersex theory\, gender theory\, trans* theory\, and a range of different materialist theories. A robust and nonreductive account of gender\, sexuality\, identification\, and subjectivity needs to retheorize sex. This talk will begin the work of retheorizing sex for the present. \nChristopher Breu is Professor of English at Illinois State University\, where he teaches courses on cultural and critical theory\, American literature 1900 to the present\, American popular culture\, literature and culture in a global context\, gender and sexuality. His publications include Insistence of the Material: Literature in the Age of Biopolitics (Minnesota 2014) and Hard-Boiled Masculinities (Minnesota 2005). He earned his PhD in Literature from UC Santa Cruz in 2000. \nSponsored by the Department of Literature\, Siegfried and Elisabeth Mignon Puknat Endowment. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/defense-sex-post-phd-path/ LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/Christopher-Breu.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180209T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180209T160000 DTSTAMP:20260618T222802 CREATED:20180129T184755Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180205T172115Z UID:10005450-1518184800-1518192000@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Victoria Bañales: "Community College Teaching - A View From Inside" DESCRIPTION:The Literature Department Graduate Program Alumni Speaker Series Presents: \n“Community College Teaching: A View From Inside”\nVictoria Bañales \nVictoria Bañales earned a Ph.D. in Literature with a Parenthetical Notation in Feminist Studies from UCSC. Her work has appeared in the anthologies Beyond the Frame: Women of Color and Visual Representations and Translocalities/Translocalidades: Feminist Politics of Translation in the Latin/ a Américas. Victoria is a tenured English faculty member at Cabrillo College where she has taught for over twelve ears. She serves on numerous committees and is the chair of the Cabrillo Hispanic Affairs Council. She is last year’s recipient of Cabrillo’s EOPS Instructor of the Year Award. \n  \nOther Upcoming Events: \nApril 11 & 12th: “‘In Defense of Sex’ and the Post PhD Path” by Chris Breu URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/community-college-teaching-view-inside/ LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/Revised-Banales.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170518T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170518T164500 DTSTAMP:20260618T222802 CREATED:20170505T190006Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170505T190006Z UID:10005377-1495098000-1495125900@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:The Eighteenth Annual Literature Undergraduate Colloquium DESCRIPTION:THE EIGHTEENTH ANNUAL LITERATURE UNDERGRADUATE COLLOQUIUM \nOpening Remarks 9:30 a.m.\nDeanna Shemek\, Chair\, Literature Department\nPanel One: Translating Tradition\n9:45 – 10:45 a.m.\nModerator: Christopher Chen\nVictoria Jones: Ion\nElli Levin: Baby’s First Inferno\, or Dante Alighieri and the Nine Circles \nJessica Ness Poetic: Language in Translation \nAlexander Pérez: The Nation in You \nPanel Two: Cross/Cultural Encounters\n11:00 a.m. – 12:00 noon\nModerator: Martin Devecka \nMarcus Dovigi Language and the Law: A Comparison of the American and Islamic Legal Systems \nSavanna Heydon Breaking Borders: Foreigner \nPang Yang Embellishing Lia \nFREE! LUNCH BUFFET\n12:00 – 12:45 p.m. \nPanel Three: Practices of Reading\n12:45 – 1:45 p.m.\nModerator: Amanda Smith \nSarah Ali Reading as an Act of Self Construction\nSamantha Alsina Poetry Politics: Short Commentaries\nHarold D. Surh Jr. Mad in Craft \nPanel Four: Rock and Romanticism\n2:00 – 3:00 p.m.\nModerator: Rob Wilson \nSylvester Cruz On the English Disease\nIsaac Mier The Highway of Excess and the Path to Endless Nights: William Blake and Jim Morrison\nJohn Wilber The Nightingale Up in Arms: Bob Dylan’s “Jokerman” \nPanel Five: The Time of Slavery\n3:15 – 4:15 p.m.\nModerator: Dorian Bell\nIsla Cunningham Blake and Of One Blood: Representations of “Messianic” Time\nFiona Murphy Historicizing Slavery in Fiction: A Study of Cuban Slave Narratives\nCarina Zhur Race Against Time: How Time Fetishizes Race and Suppresses Messianic Power \nClosing Remarks 4:15 p.m.\nA. Hunter Bivens\, Director\, Literature Undergraduate Program Committee \nFREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC. ALL ARE INVITED! URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/e-eighteenth-annual-literature-undergraduate-colloquium-2/ LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/Mail-Attachment1.jpeg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20151028T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20151028T210000 DTSTAMP:20260618T222802 CREATED:20151029T233029Z LAST-MODIFIED:20151029T233029Z UID:10006296-1446058800-1446066000@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Ozploitation Film Series presents : Long Weekend (1978) DESCRIPTION:An unsettling cross between Alfred Hitchcock’s The Birds (1963) and an early Harold Pinter play\, Colin Eggleston’s Long Weekend presents us with an extremely prickly couple on holiday who are finding it harder and harder to tolerate each other even as it becomes increasingly apparent that nature itself might be out to do them in at their idyllic beach campsite. Petty squabbling and rampant passive aggressivity momentarily distract from the couple’s casual littering and senseless slaughter of animals. As the film goes on\, however\, the couple’s problems with each other and nature’s problems with them start to overlap and soon develop a queasily menacing force. Not to be missed! URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/ozploitation-film-series-presents-long-weekend-1978-3/ LOCATION:Stevenson\, Room 150 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/Long-Weekend-Flyer.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20150521T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20150521T160000 DTSTAMP:20260618T222802 CREATED:20150513T230828Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150513T230828Z UID:10006128-1432198800-1432224000@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Sixteenth Annual Literature Undergraduate Colloquium DESCRIPTION:This day-long event\, including a lunch buffet\, will showcase and celebrate undergraduate academic work in the Literature Department. The Undergraduate Colloquium is open to the public; audience members include faculty\, students\, families and other interested parties. \nThe Literature Department’s 2015 Best Undergraduate Essay and Best Senior Essay prizes will be announced during the Opening Remarks at 9:00 a.m. \nPlease see http://literature.ucsc.edu/news-events/news/2015-ugrad-colloq.pdf to download a schedule of the day’s activities. For more information: (831) 459-4778 or litdept@ucsc.edu. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/sixteenth-annual-literature-undergraduate-colloquium-2/ LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/2015-ugrad-colloq.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20150425T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20150425T130000 DTSTAMP:20260618T222802 CREATED:20150417T173050Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150417T173050Z UID:10006088-1429959600-1429966800@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Celebrating 50 Years of Literature DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column width=”1/1″][vc_column_text] \nIn order to celebrate our tradition of working and teaching across national\, linguistic\, and disciplinary divides\, the UCSC Literature Department is pleased host 50 Years of Literature at UCSC\, an event commemorating the achievement of Literature alumni and faculty. This special anniversary event will feature discussions with emeritus and current faculty\, and UCSC alumni. It will take place at beautiful Kresge College\, a perfect venue for lively\, engaging conversation. Join us for conviviality and lunch with friends and faculty! \n* \nSchedule of the Day’s Events \nWelcome: Professor Carla Freccero\, Literature Department Chair \nPanel One: Literature at UCSC: Then and Now: with Professor Emeritus Harry Berger\, Jr.\, and Professors Vilashini Cooppan and H. Marshall (Marsh) Leicester\, Jr. \nPanel Two: The Literature Difference: A Student-Faculty Dialogue\, with Professor and UCSC alumna Karen Bassi\, Professor Susan Gillman\, and Alumnus Stephen Richter \nReception and Light Lunch: Alumni\, Literature faculty and staff \n  \nFor more information\, visit event page!\nQuestions? Contact Stephanie Casher\, Literature Department Manager.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row] URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/20877-2/ LOCATION:Kresge College Room 327 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20150319T094500 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20150319T180000 DTSTAMP:20260618T222802 CREATED:20150305T192856Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150305T192856Z UID:10005053-1426758300-1426788000@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:“Scholars” y tópicos: Alicia de Colombí-Monguió como paradigma DESCRIPTION:Conference organized by Jordi Aladro\, Professor of Literature \nWednesday 18th\n7:00pm – Welcome for participants with a “vino español” (a generous donation from Instituto Cervantes\, New York) \nThursday 19th\nUniversity of California\, Santa Cruz. Humanities 1\, Room 202 \n9:45am\nIntroduction: Jordi Aladro\nLiterature\, University of California\, Santa Cruz \n10:15am\n“The Indefinite Garden: Ovid’s Metaphors and Metamorphoses in Chaucer’s Merchant’s Tale”\nEdward Milowicki\nEmeritus Professor\, Mills College \n10:45am\n“La traducción del hexámetro latino de Petrarca en castellano”\nAlejandro Higashi\nÁrea de Semiología Literaria\, Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana – Iztapalapa \n11:15am\n“La lengua de la Descripción de Esmeraldas”\nEva Mendieta\nChair and Professor of Spanish Department of Modern Languages\, Indiana University Northwest \n11:45am\n“Las ilustraciones de trasgos y estantiguas en el Compendio de Manila”\nMarisa García Verdugo\nChair and Professor of Spanish Department of Modern Languages\, Purdue University \n12:15pm\n“Borges\, Alicia y las maravillas”\nGraciela Taquini\nProfesora en Historia de las Artes\, Facultad de Filosofía y Letras\, Universidad de Buenos Aires \n12:45 – 2:00pm\nBreak \n2:00pm\n“‘Retirado en la paz de estos desiertos’: poema de destierro”\nMontserrat Mochón\nSaint Mary’s College \n2:30pm\n“Representación de la heroína indígena en El Arauco domado de Lope de Vega”\nLuzmila Camacho\nOhio State University at Marion \n3:00pm\n“Revalorización de la primera comedia de Salazar y Torres en la preceptiva de la época”\nEsther Murillo\nAssociate Professor of Spanish\, Foreign Language Department The College of Saint Rose \n3:30pm\n“Noticias sobre el primer Quijote y la imprenta”\nEnrique Rodríguez Cepeda\nEmeritus Professor University of California\, Los Angeles \n4:00pm\n“Luis Monguió\, un exiliado leal”\nÁlvaro Romero\nUniversity of California\, Santa Cruz \n4:30pm\nBook presentation: “Homenaje a Alicia de Colombí-Monguió”\nEva Mendieta and Marisa García Verdugo \n5:00pm – Closing Remarks by Alicia de Colombí-Monguió \nCo-Sponsored by:\nInstituto Cervantes\, New York\nDepartment of Literature\nDepartment of Languages and Applied Linguistics\nSpanish Studies\nCowell Provost\nInstitute for Humanities Research URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/scholars-y-topicos-march-19-2/ LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 202 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20150122T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20150122T153000 DTSTAMP:20260618T222802 CREATED:20150113T171916Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150113T171916Z UID:10005975-1421935200-1421940600@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Lauren Berlant: "Structures of Unfeeling Mysterious Skin" DESCRIPTION: URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/lauren-berlant-structures-of-unfeeling-mysterious-skin-2/ LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140608T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140608T210000 DTSTAMP:20260618T222802 CREATED:20140429T164851Z LAST-MODIFIED:20140429T164851Z UID:10005720-1402254000-1402261200@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Contemporary Horror Auteur Film Series: À l ́interieur DESCRIPTION:A French body horror film that takes home invasion movies to their ne plus ultra\, Alexandre Bustillo and Julien Maury’s À l’intérieur depicts the attempts of Sarah (Alysson Paradis)\, very pregnant and very alone in her house on Christmas Eve\, to ward off the efforts of “La Femme” (Beátrice Dalle) to break into Sarah’s home and (if she can) Sarah’s womb to take the baby for herself. Mixing together this gruesome premise with yuletide ennui and the aftereffects of the banlieue riots of 2005\, the film is a moody and unsettlingly downbeat Christmas tale. Not to be missed! \nFor the remainder of the quarter\, we will be showing films by contemporary horror film auteurs from France\, Japan\, and the United States each week. Same time\, same place. All are welcome. Tell your family\, invite your friends. \nSponsored (or at least turned a blind eye) by the Literature Department\, and produced by the usual gang of aficionados. More informative flyers to follow weekly. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/contemporary-horror-auteur-film-series-a-l-interieur-2/ LOCATION:Stevenson\, Room 150 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140601T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140601T210000 DTSTAMP:20260618T222802 CREATED:20140429T164550Z LAST-MODIFIED:20140429T164550Z UID:10005718-1401649200-1401656400@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Contemporary Horror Auteur Film Series: One Missed Call DESCRIPTION:Helmed by the wildly prolific Takashi Miike\, whose other notable horror credits include Audition (1999)\, Visitor Q (2001)\, Gozu (2003)\, and Imprint (2006)\, One Missed Call takes the anxieties surrounding the obsolescence of video tape technology that were so gloomily evoked in Ringu (1998) and shifts them onto the rise of cellular phone communication and the exploitative potentials of reality television. Yumi Nakamura (Kô Shibasaki) tries to find out who or what is behind the death of her friend\, Yoko (Anna Nagata). Two days before her death\, Yoko receives a voice message from herself dated two days in the future\, and in this message Yoko and Yumi can hear Yoko screaming. Yumi’s search for answers becomes increasingly urgent as she too receives a voice message from herself with the date of her future death. Followed by two sequels\, a short-lived Japanese TV series\, and an American remake\, One Missed Call is not to be missed!  \nFor the remainder of the quarter\, we will be showing films by contemporary horror film auteurs from France\, Japan\, and the United States each week. Same time\, same place. All are welcome. Tell your family\, invite your friends. \nSponsored (or at least turned a blind eye) by the Literature Department\, and produced by the usual gang of aficionados. More informative flyers to follow weekly. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/contemporary-horror-auteur-film-series-one-missed-call-2/ LOCATION:Stevenson\, Room 150 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140525T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140525T210000 DTSTAMP:20260618T222802 CREATED:20140429T164458Z LAST-MODIFIED:20140429T164458Z UID:10005707-1401044400-1401051600@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Contemporary Horror Auteur Film Series: You're Next DESCRIPTION:You never want to do anything interesting anymore. \nIf you’ve ever found yourself wondering what a mumblecore slasher film might be like\, then look no further than You’re Next. Directed by Adam wingard (who also helmed 2010’s elliptically grim A Horrible Way to Die and this year’s John-Carpenter-meets-The-Terminator homage The Guest) and featuring a number of prominent figures from the mumblecore scene (most notably Amy Seimetz and Joe Swanberg)\, the film is a wild recasting of the slasher film’s “Final Girl” as a survivalist killing machine let loose amidst murderous familial dysfunction in a Home Alone-like scenario. Not to be missed! \nFor the remainder of the quarter\, we will be showing films by contemporary horror film auteurs from France\, Japan\, and the United States each week. Same time\, same place. All are welcome. Tell your family\, invite your friends. \nSponsored (or at least turned a blind eye) by the Literature Department\, and produced by the usual gang of aficionados. More informative flyers to follow weekly. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/contemporary-horror-auteur-film-series-youre-next-2/ LOCATION:Stevenson\, Room 150 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140522T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140522T170000 DTSTAMP:20260618T222802 CREATED:20140508T181011Z LAST-MODIFIED:20140508T181011Z UID:10004936-1400749200-1400778000@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:2014 Literature Undergraduate Colloquium DESCRIPTION:The Fifteenth Annual Literature Undergraduate Colloquium\n9:00-9:10 AM – Opening Remarks\nKirsten Silva Gruesz\, Director\, Literature Undergraduate Program \n9:10-10:15 AM – Panel One: Borderlands: Creative Writers Read\nModerator\, Micah Perks \nJames Williams: Impertinent Youth\nMarine Ashnalikyan: “In the Living Room” and other Poems\nNarine Ashnalikyan: “After Dinner” and other Poems\nStephen Richter: A Southern Tradition (or Triple Consciousness) \n10:30-11:30 AM – Panel Two: Literature and Metamorphoses\nModerator: Sean Keilen \nJessica Imber: History\, Fiction and a Little Something In Between: Searching for the Migrant Voice through the Labyrinth of Narrative\nAndrew Harmatz: “Where Should This Music Be? I’ Th’ Air or Th’ Earth?”: Ovid’s Orpheus and Poetry as a Harmony of Authorial Voices\nAbbie Jennings: The Chink in the Wall: A Peek at Ovid Through Shakespeare \n11:45-12:45 PM – Panel Three: Doubling and Dialectics\nModerator: A. Hunter Bivens \nSophie Cox: Rose-White Boyhood: Floral Language as Veiled Homosexuality in The Picture of Dorian Gray\nJosephe David Watkins: And Equally We May Find the Opposite\nMelissa Ott: Torches of Progress and Enlightenment: Imperialist Language in Mark Twain’s A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court and “To the Person Sitting in Darkness” \n12:45-1:30 PM – Lunch Buffet\n1:30-2:30 PM – Panel Four: History and Memory\nModerator: Vilashini Cooppan \nIan L. Silva: Herodotus and his ‘Setting forth’\nMariah Padilla: The Imagination and Postmemory: The Postgeneration’s Working-through of Trauma\nMatthew Strebe: The Problem of Memory in Literary Representations of the Holocaust \n2:45-3:45 PM – The Pen\, The Book\, and The Robot\nModerator: Kirsten Silva Gruesz \nTaylor Backman: “My Pen”: Oroonoko and the Rise of Female and Subjugated Authors\nC. Austin Knudson: Diego Herva’s Journey To Hell: Relationships Between Textual Materiality and Modern Authorship in The Manuscript Found in Saragossa\nJames Vitiello: RoboCop: Delta City is Inevitable \n3:45-4:00 PM – Closing Remarks\nCarla Freccero\, Chair\, Literature Department URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/2014-literature-undergraduate-colloquium-2/ LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140518T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140518T210000 DTSTAMP:20260618T222802 CREATED:20140429T164339Z LAST-MODIFIED:20140429T164339Z UID:10005690-1400439600-1400446800@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Contemporary Horror Auteur Film Series: Pulse DESCRIPTION:Pulse (2001) \nWould you like to meet a ghost?\nAbout as bleak a depiction of apocalypse as you’re ever likely to come across\, Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s Pulse is a J-Horror film in which short episodic vignettes slowly disclose a world where ghosts outnumber people and people have been reduced to black ashy stains on the wall. In the midst of dealing with the emotional fallout of their friend’s suicide\, a group of young people start to notice that their computers are accessing the internet on their own and loading websites that ask them if they would like to meet a ghost. As we cycle through a shifting set of characters faced with these phenomena\, it becomes clear that direct contact with the blurry spectral beings results in life-ending melancholy and forlornness\, and the only escape from this dire outcome seems to be isolating yourself in your barricaded house indefinitely. The bleak cinematography\, empty cityscapes\, and knife-like integration of cacophony and silence in the sound design make this an understated and creepily effective counterpoint to the more widely known Ringu (1998). A remarkably atmospheric expression of technological angst and the fear of being alone\, Pulse is not to be missed! \nFor the remainder of the quarter\, we will be showing films by contemporary horror film auteurs from France\, Japan\, and the United States each week. Same time\, same place. All are welcome. Tell your family\, invite your friends. \nSponsored (or at least turned a blind eye) by the Literature Department\, and produced by the usual gang of aficionados. More informative flyers to follow weekly. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/contemporary-horror-auteur-film-series-pulse-2/ LOCATION:Stevenson\, Room 150 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140511T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140511T210000 DTSTAMP:20260618T222802 CREATED:20140425T221515Z LAST-MODIFIED:20140425T221515Z UID:10005686-1399834800-1399842000@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Contemporary Horror Auteur Film Series: The House of the Devil DESCRIPTION:During the 1980s\, over 70% of American adults believed in the existence of abusive satanic cults.\nA typically low key and intelligent horror film from Ti West\, perhaps the most critically lauded of America’s rising generation of horror movie auteurs\, The House of the Devil is a moody and evocative spin on the satanic cult sub-genre. In an attempt to raise money for a deposit on an apartment\, Samantha (Jocelin Donahue) agrees to babysit for the Ulmans (Tom Noonan and Mary Woronov) on the night of a total lunar eclipse. After admitting that in fact they do not have a child but rather a grandmother who needs tending to\, the Ulmans insist that the old woman not be disturbed and that Samantha really ought to order a pizza for dinner on their dime. True to form for West\, what ought to scare you here might not be the Satanists but the pizza. Not to be missed! \nFor the remainder of the quarter\, we will be showing films by contemporary horror film auteurs from France\, Japan\, and the United States each week. Same time\, same place. All are welcome. Tell your family\, invite your friends. \nSponsored (or at least turned a blind eye) by the Literature Department\, and produced by the usual gang of aficionados. More informative flyers to follow weekly. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/contemporary-horror-auteur-film-series-the-house-of-the-devil-2/ LOCATION:Stevenson\, Room 150 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140504T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140504T210000 DTSTAMP:20260618T222802 CREATED:20140425T221357Z LAST-MODIFIED:20140425T221357Z UID:10005684-1399230000-1399237200@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Contemporary Horror Auteur Film Series: Suicide Club DESCRIPTION:They’re not the enemy.\nThe film that put Shion Sono on the international art house horror map\, Suicide Club opens with the bizarre and eerie sight of 54 uniformed teenage schoolgirls queued up beside a subway platform where they hold hands\, begin to sing\, and then all at once hurl themselves into the path of an arriving train. The police investigation into their deaths seems to be going nowhere when an alarming number of suicides start to sweep through the country\, and a semi-anonymous phone tip directs the detectives to a website keeping count of the suicides\, sometimes listing deaths even before the police know about them. Braiding together this police procedural narrative with comedic skewerings of Japanese popular culture (most notably through the appearances of the fictional pre-teen pop band called Dessert) and some serious misgivings about the loss of interpersonal contact due to developments in technology\, Suicide Club is a tonally shifty film that evades giving the viewer much in the way of resolution even as it leaves you with a set of images and sequences you won’t soon be forgetting. Not to be missed! \nFor the remainder of the quarter\, we will be showing films by contemporary horror film auteurs from France\, Japan\, and the United States each week. Same time\, same place. All are welcome. Tell your family\, invite your friends. \nSponsored (or at least turned a blind eye) by the Literature Department\, and produced by the usual gang of aficionados. More informative flyers to follow weekly. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/contemporary-horror-auteur-film-series-suicide-club-2/ LOCATION:Stevenson\, Room 150 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140427T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140427T210000 DTSTAMP:20260618T222802 CREATED:20140425T221011Z LAST-MODIFIED:20140425T221011Z UID:10004932-1398625200-1398632400@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Contemporary Horror Auteur Film Series: Martyrs DESCRIPTION:It’s easy to create a victim. \nOne of the more insightful recent examples of French extreme cinema and “torture porn\,” Pascal Laugier’s Martyrs is a singularly divisive horror film experience. After police officers rescue her following over a year of repeated exposure to torture and torment\, Lucie build up her strength in an orphanage and befriends Anna\, another victim of abuse. Fifteen years later Lucie (Mylène Jampanoï) and Anna (Morjana Alaoui) break into the house of a seemingly middle-of-the-road bourgeois family whom Lucie proceeds to slaughter with gory abandon because she believes them to be the perpetrators of her yearlong suffering and abuse as a child. These gruesome acts give way to some obvious problems (primarily having to do with how to dispose of the bodies) and the unexpected discovery of a hidden staircase that leads to the more affecting and startling atrocity exhibitions (and almost spiritual ordeals of survival) in the film’s second half. Though it is certainly one of the most graphic films we’ll be showing this quarter\, Martyrs is not to be missed! \nFor the remainder of the quarter\, we will be showing films by contemporary horror film auteurs from France\, Japan\, and the United States each week. Same time\, same place. All are welcome. Tell your family\, invite your friends. \nSponsored (or at least turned a blind eye) by the Literature Department\, and produced by the usual gang of aficionados. More informative flyers to follow weekly. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/film-screening-martyrs-2/ LOCATION:Stevenson\, Room 150 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140316T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140316T210000 DTSTAMP:20260618T222802 CREATED:20140116T191732Z LAST-MODIFIED:20140116T191732Z UID:10005630-1394996400-1395003600@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Misfit Horror Film Series: Freaks DESCRIPTION:Misfit Horror: A film series dedicated to one-of-a-kind horror movies whose originality and power have been unjustly neglected because they aren’t at all what you expected. \nMarch 16th – Freaks (1932\, dir. Tod Browning) – a Pre-Code horror flick that still has the capacity to haunt and creep you out \nThe granddaddy of all the misfit horror films we’ve been exploring this quarter\, Freaks is Tod Browning’s empathetic depiction of the physically deformed performers who comprise the circus sideshow of Madame Tetrallini (Rose Dione). A beautiful acrobat marries and poisons a rich midget named Hans (Harry Earles) in order to get his inheritance\, for which the “freaks” in the circus enact a gruesome revenge. As this brusque summary suggests\, it is the “normal” people in the film who often come across as monstrous and grotesque\, though the film does provocatively pose the question of where compassion for these “freaks” stops and the exploitation of them begins. Made the year following his famous adaption of Dracula with Bela Lugosi\, Browning’s Freaks is not to be missed! \nSunday nights at 7PM in 150 Stevenson. Sponsored (or at least turned a blind eye) by the Literature Department\, and produced by the usual gang of aficionados. More informative flyers to follow weekly. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/misfit-horror-3-16-14-2/ LOCATION:Stevenson\, Room 150 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140309T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140309T210000 DTSTAMP:20260618T222802 CREATED:20140116T191520Z LAST-MODIFIED:20140116T191520Z UID:10005619-1394391600-1394398800@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Misfit Horror Film Series: Possession DESCRIPTION:Misfit Horror  \nA film series dedicated to one-of-a-kind horror movies whose originality and power have been unjustly neglected because they aren’t at all what you expected. \nMarch 9th – Possession (1981\, dir. Andrzej Zulawski) – for those of you who suspect that marriage is intrinsically a horror film \nSunday nights at 7PM in 150 Stevenson. Sponsored (or at least turned a blind eye) by the Literature Department\, and produced by the usual gang of aficionados. More informative flyers to follow weekly. \n  \nFor more information\, please visit: ihr.ucsc.edu URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/misfit-horror-3-9-14-2/ LOCATION:Stevenson\, Room 150 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140302T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140302T210000 DTSTAMP:20260618T222802 CREATED:20140116T191315Z LAST-MODIFIED:20140116T191315Z UID:10005618-1393786800-1393794000@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Misfit Horror Film Series: Mother Joan of the Angels DESCRIPTION:Misfit Horror  \nA film series dedicated to one-of-a-kind horror movies whose originality and power have been unjustly neglected because they aren’t at all what you expected. \nMarch 2nd – Mother Joan of the Angels (1961\, dir. Jerzy Kawalerowicz) – an impressive and unsettling Polish film about the demonic possession of a group of nuns in the early 1600s \nSunday nights at 7PM in 150 Stevenson. Sponsored (or at least turned a blind eye) by the Literature Department\, and produced by the usual gang of aficionados. More informative flyers to follow weekly. \n  \nFor more information\, please visit: ihr.ucsc.edu URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/misfit-horror-3-2-14-2/ LOCATION:Stevenson\, Room 150 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140223T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140223T210000 DTSTAMP:20260618T222802 CREATED:20140116T191050Z LAST-MODIFIED:20140116T191050Z UID:10005616-1393182000-1393189200@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Misfit Horror Film Series: A Chinese Ghost Story DESCRIPTION:Misfit Horror  \nA film series dedicated to one-of-a-kind horror movies whose originality and power have been unjustly neglected because they aren’t at all what you expected. \nA Chinese Ghost Story (1987\, dir. Siu-Tung Ching) is a remarkable high point of 80s Hong Kong cinema. \nBoth an adaptation of a story by Pu Songling written during the Qing Dynasty and a remake of a Shaw Brothers film entitled The Enchanted Shadow (1960)\, A Chinese Ghost Story is feverish mix of romance\, comedy\, and Evil Dead-style supernatural horror. After he fails to collect a debt owed to him\, a young scholarly tax collector (Leslie Cheung) is forced to spend the night in an abandoned temple where he meets and falls in love with a beautiful young woman (Joey Wong)\, whom he subsequently realizes is a ghost enslaved to a Tree Demon (Siu-Ming Lau). With a Taoist swordsman (Ma Wu) at his side\, he sets out to free his beloved spirit from eternal servitude\, even if he has to follow the Tree Demon into the underworld to do so. The inspiration for two sequels\, an animated film version\, a television series\, and a remake in 2011\, A Chinese Ghost Story is a high point of Hong Kong cinema during what was arguably its most fertile creative period. Not to be missed! \nSunday nights at 7PM in 150 Stevenson. Sponsored (or at least turned a blind eye) by the Literature Department\, and produced by the usual gang of aficionados. More informative flyers to follow weekly. \n  URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/misfit-horror-2-23-14-2/ LOCATION:Stevenson\, Room 150 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140216T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140216T210000 DTSTAMP:20260618T222802 CREATED:20140116T190856Z LAST-MODIFIED:20140116T190856Z UID:10005614-1392577200-1392584400@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Misfit Horror Film Series: Love Object DESCRIPTION:Misfit Horror  \nA film series dedicated to one-of-a-kind horror movies whose originality and power have been unjustly neglected because they aren’t at all what you expected. \n  \n \nRelationships come and go\, but plastination is forever!  \nThe only film hitherto written and directed by Robert Parigi\, Love Object creepily tells the story of a love triangle involving a young man\, a young woman\, and an anatomically correct sex doll that looks an awful lot like the young woman. Kenneth (Desmond Harrington) is a socially maladroit technical writer who pines for a temp typist in his office\, Lisa (Melissa Sagemiller)\, but cannot work up the nerve to ask her out. Shown an internet site selling deluxe sex dolls for thousands of dollars\, he designs a life-size rubber doll made to look like Lisa\, though he christens the doll Nikki. After developing a comprehensive relationship with Nikki (including sex and nightly tête–à–têtes)\, Kenneth works up the nerve to approach Lisa\, which only makes Nikki more and more violently jealous. In many respects a companion film to Lucky McKee’s May\, a much more widely known and respected horror film released the previous year—in his excellent book Nightmare Movies: Horror on Screen since the 1960s Kim Newman goes so far as to suggest that May and Kenneth “might be soulmates if they weren’t in different films”—Love Object is not to be missed! \nSunday nights at 7PM in 150 Stevenson. Sponsored (or at least turned a blind eye) by the Literature Department\, and produced by the usual gang of aficionados. More informative flyers to follow weekly. \n  URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/misfit-horror-2-16-14-2/ LOCATION:Stevenson\, Room 150 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140209T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140209T210000 DTSTAMP:20260618T222802 CREATED:20140116T190634Z LAST-MODIFIED:20140116T190634Z UID:10005612-1391972400-1391979600@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Misfit Horror Film Series: The Two Faces of Dr. Jekyll DESCRIPTION:Misfit Horror  \nA film series dedicated to one-of-a-kind horror movies whose originality and power have been unjustly neglected because they aren’t at all what you expected. \nFebruary 9th – The Two Faces of Dr. Jekyll (1960\, dir. Terence Fisher) – perhaps the sleaziest and most affecting adaptation of Stevenson’s novella \nSunday nights at 7PM in 150 Stevenson. Sponsored (or at least turned a blind eye) by the Literature Department\, and produced by the usual gang of aficionados. More informative flyers to follow weekly. \n  \nFor more information\, please visit: literature.ucsc.edu URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/misfit-horror-2-9-14-2/ LOCATION:Stevenson\, Room 150 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140202T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140202T210000 DTSTAMP:20260618T222802 CREATED:20140116T190326Z LAST-MODIFIED:20140116T190326Z UID:10005610-1391367600-1391374800@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:CANCELLED: Misfit Horror Film Series: Arrebato DESCRIPTION:Misfit Horror  \nA film series dedicated to one-of-a-kind horror movies whose originality and power have been unjustly neglected because they aren’t at all what you expected. \nFebruary 2nd – Arrebato (1980\, dir. Iván Zulueta) – think of it as a Spanish Videodrome\, only avant la lettre \nFor more information\, please visit: ihr.ucsc.edu URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/misfit-horror-2-2-14-2/ LOCATION:Stevenson\, Room 150 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140126T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140126T210000 DTSTAMP:20260618T222802 CREATED:20140116T185952Z LAST-MODIFIED:20140116T185952Z UID:10005608-1390762800-1390770000@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Misfit Horror Film Series: The House with Laughing Windows DESCRIPTION:The House with Laughing Windows (1976\, dir. Pupi Avati) – a moody and masterful giallo (Italian thriller / mystery / slasher film)\nOne of the most remarkable (albeit atypical) examples of a giallo (Italian mystery-thriller-slasher film) out there\, Pupi Avati’s The House with Laughing Windows is a masterpiece of mood and ambient creepiness whose ability to stretch an atmosphere of queasy apprehension to the absolute breaking point over the course of a feature-length film is probably second only to Nicholas Roeg’s Don’t Look Now\, made just three years previously. A young art historian named Stefano (Lino Capolicchio) comes to a remote Italian village to restore some twentieth-century frescos that depict the martyrdom of Saint Sebastian in an old church. Some rumors suggest that the deceased artist of the works actually tortured and murdered his real-life models. Meanwhile\, Stefano’s efforts to restore the frescoes get sidetracked by all the locals who have secrets they want to share with him but cannot because they keep dying under mysterious circumstances before they can actually get down to the business of telling him much of anything. This is a movie whose tensions and uneasiness build and build and build . . . Not to be missed!\nMisfit Horror is a film series dedicated to one-of-a-kind horror movies whose originality and power have been unjustly neglected because they aren’t at all what you expected. \nSunday nights at 7PM in 150 Stevenson. Sponsored (or at least turned a blind eye) by the Literature Department\, and produced by the usual gang of aficionados. More informative flyers to follow weekly. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/misfit-horror-1-26-2/ LOCATION:Stevenson\, Room 150 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140124T151500 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140124T170000 DTSTAMP:20260618T222802 CREATED:20140122T164315Z LAST-MODIFIED:20140122T164315Z UID:10004894-1390576500-1390582800@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Martin Devecka: "Some Ends of the City: Ruins and Utopia in the Ancient World" DESCRIPTION:The Literature Department invites you to attend a talk held in conjunction with the search for a position in Mediterranean Studies: Ancient Comparative \nWhy do ruins happen? Are they caused by natural catastrophes\, invasions\, economic collapse\, state failure\, or by something else? This talk will address these questions from a new perspective\, integrating sociological comparison of ancient societies including Arabia\, Athens\, and Rome with analysis of ancient writings about ruins to suggest that literary fantasies about post-urban life may play as important a part in bringing about the destruction of cities as any of the causes conventionally invoked by historians. \nMartin Devecka is a Mellon Postdoctoral Associate at Yale University\, where he received his Ph.D. in Classics and Comparative Literature in 2012. He has taught there and at Brown University on subjects ranging from Latin political thought to Greco-Roman zoology. His research interests include animals\, the history of technology\, and the cultures of the Red Sea. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/martin-devecka-some-ends-of-the-city-ruins-and-utopia-in-the-ancient-world-2/ LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140119T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140119T210000 DTSTAMP:20260618T222802 CREATED:20140116T192448Z LAST-MODIFIED:20140116T192448Z UID:10004892-1390158000-1390165200@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Misfit Horror Film Series: Who Can Kill a Child? DESCRIPTION:Misfit Horror  \nA film series dedicated to one-of-a-kind horror movies whose originality and power have been unjustly neglected because they aren’t at all what you expected. \n  \nJanuary 19th – Who Can Kill a Child? One of the most disturbing horror films from a decade that was conspicuously filled with them\, Who Can Kill a Child? takes The Birds (1963) and replaces Alfred Hitchcock’s bloodthirsty birds with an island full of homicidal children. Directed by Narciso Ibáñez Serrador (whose other horror film of note is the wonderfully sordid and atmospheric The House That Screamed from 1969)\, this Spanish production opens with a documentary montage of atrocity footage from around the world (the Holocaust\, the Korean War\, the Indo-Pakistani War of 1971\, etc.) to polemically motivate the reasons why the children of the small island of Almanzora have collectively murdered the adult population there. Arriving in Almanzora on holiday\, the baby-expecting couple of Tom (Lewis Fiander) and Evelyn (Prunella Ransome) discover that the island appears to be deserted. Shops are untended\, no bellboys are waiting in the foyers of the island’s hotels\, restaurants are totally devoid of patrons or servers. The benign suspicion that the inhabitants are all on siesta\, however\, soon shifts to doubts and fears about the children who start to appear everywhere. Though not a gory film\, Who Can Kill a Child? remains a supremely unsettling film that will linger with you for a long time\, like it or lump it. Not to be missed! \n  \nSunday nights at 7PM in 150 Stevenson. Sponsored (or at least turned a blind eye) by the Literature Department\, and produced by the usual gang of aficionados. More informative flyers to follow weekly. \n  \nFor more information\, please visit: ihr.ucsc.edu URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/misfit-horror-1-19-14-2/ LOCATION:Stevenson\, Room 150 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20131118T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20131118T173000 DTSTAMP:20260618T222802 CREATED:20131107T234951Z LAST-MODIFIED:20131107T234951Z UID:10004871-1384790400-1384795800@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Inaugural Talk: "Lit Up" DESCRIPTION:What first turned your professors into readers? What do they read for pleasure\, and why? Come find out at “LIT UP\,” a new series of informal talks by UCSC Literature professors specifically for the undergraduate community\, and open to everyone. \n\nThe inaugural LIT UP event is “Welcome to the Jungle: Conrad and Me\,” with Professor Vilashini Cooppan\, on Monday\, November 18 from 4:00 to 5:30 p.m. in Humanities 1\, room 210. \nProfessor Cooppan was honored with a campuswide Excellence in Teaching Award in 2013. Her courses this year include LTEL 190L/Studies in English Language Literature: Trauma\, History\, Memory; LTWL 115A/Fiction in a Global Context: Postcolonial Novel; and LIT 101/Theory and Interpretation: Race/Colonialism/Ethnicity. \nQuestions\, discussion\, and light refreshments will follow the talk. We look forward to seeing you there! URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/inaugural-talk-lit-up-2/ LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20131105T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20131105T170000 DTSTAMP:20260618T222802 CREATED:20131104T230033Z LAST-MODIFIED:20131104T230033Z UID:10004866-1383638400-1383670800@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:1930's FIlm Series: "Chapaev (1934)" DESCRIPTION:An important example of socialist realism in Soviet cinema\, Chapaev charts the ideological development and refinement of Chapaev (Boris Babochkin)\, a charismatic leader of a Red Army division. Under the guidance of his accompanying Party commissar\, Dmitri Furmanov (Boris Blinov)\, the impetuous and proud Chapaev learns important lessons in the dialectic of spontaneity and consciousness. Released on the seventeenth anniversary of the October revolution and directed by Georgii and Sergei Vasil’ev (often referred to as the Vasil’ev Brothers\, even though they weren’t fraternally related)\, Chapaev was the most popular Soviet film of its time and a huge hit internationally. Not to be missed! \n\n\n\nFor the remainder of the quarter\, we will be showing 1930s films from different countries each week. Same time\, same place. All are welcome. Tell your family\, invite your friends.\n\n\n  URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/1930s-film-series-chapaev-1934-2/ LOCATION:Porter C-118 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130123T153000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130123T170000 DTSTAMP:20260618T222802 CREATED:20130117T230926Z LAST-MODIFIED:20130117T230926Z UID:10004771-1358955000-1358960400@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Creative Writing Reading by Javier O. Huerta DESCRIPTION:Javier O. Huerta is the author of American Copia: An Immigrant Epic (Arte Publico 2012) and Some Clarifications y otros poemas (Arte Publico 2007)\, which received the 31st Chicano/Latino Literary Prize from UC Irvine. His poems have recently been anthologized in Art and Artists: Poems\, Best American Nonrequired Reading 2011\, and American Tensions: Literature of Identity and the Search for Social Justice. He received his MFA from the Bilingual Creative Writing Program at the University of Texas at El Paso and is currently a doctoral candidate in the English Department at the University of California\, Berkeley. His research examines 19th Century articulations of laughter in relation to the simultaneous belief that laughter is essentially mechanistic and that the essence of laughter is irreducible to mechanism. Other research interests include U.S. Latino Literature and Literature of Immigration\, including what he considers to be an emerging field\, the Literature of the Undocumented. Huerta has been a contributing writer for Harriet\, the blog for the Poetry Foundation. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/creative-writing-reading-by-javier-huerta-2/ LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20121107T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20121107T183000 DTSTAMP:20260618T222802 CREATED:20121031T163852Z LAST-MODIFIED:20121031T163852Z UID:10005239-1352307600-1352313000@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:The Greatest Story Never Told (In the West): The Rāmāyaṇa and the Cultural Universe of South and Southeast Asia DESCRIPTION:Robert P. Goldman is the author of several key works in the fields of Sanskrit literature and Indian thought\, and has recently completed the translation of the Ramayana of Valmiki. The recipient of several honors\, including election as fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences\, Goldman currently serves as editor of “South Asia Across the Disciplines\,” a monograph series published jointly by the presses of Columbia University\, University of Chicago\, and the University of California. \nGoldman will also be speaking to the undergraduate class (LIT61P) on the Valmiki-­‐ Ramayana from 2-­‐3:10 in Baskin Auditorium\, also on November 7th. \nRobert P. Goldman Professor of Sanskrit University of California\, Berkeley \nThis public lecture is sponsored by the Departments of History\, Literature\, and Classics. For more information or accommodation needs\, please contact G.S. Sahota at sahota@ucsc.edu. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/the-greatest-story-never-told-in-the-west-the-ramaya%e1%b9%87a-and-the-cultural-universe-of-south-and-southeast-asia-3/ LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 520\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR